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No additional tollgates on Zimbabwe's premium roads
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has dismissed claims that additional tollgates were being established along the country's premium roads.Users of social media platforms have ...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How greed stole Christmas for poor Zimbabweans
Christmas is supposed to be the season for good cheer, but for most Zimbabweans this year will be another difficult festive season as they struggle to put food on the table.It has been yet ano...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 19:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube forced to revise passport fees
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube steered through his 2024 national budget in a marathon sitting of parliament which concluded just before 1AM on Friday, making several revisions to his tax proposals....Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 15:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zinara takes the blame for poor state of Victoria Falls road
ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) chief executive officer, Mr Nkosinathi Ncube, yesterday apologised to stakeholders over the dilapidated state of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway, whi...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 arrested for smuggling in Plumtree
POLICE in Plumtree recently arrested two people for allegedly smuggling an assortment of goods from neighbouring Botswana destined for Bulawayo.One of the arrested individuals was already on t...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe infrastructure upgrades to boost revenue performance
GOVERNMENT expects the on-going infrastructural development projects, particularly the upgrading of major highways, to impact positively on revenue performance through improved transport and logistics...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare-Mutare road dualisation resumes?
WORK on the dualisation of the Harare-Mutare Highway has resumed with a six-kilometre stretch set to be completed by mid-February after the Government released US$5 million for the latest phase of the...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
More families evicted from Cyrene Farm
THE Messenger of Court, assisted by the police last week evicted 12 families from Cyrene Farm in Figtree which is owned by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church in the Diocese of Matabeleland...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF has no agenda for a GNU'
Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday officially opened the the ruling party's 17th National People's Conference at Umzingwane High School...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:35hrs | 2 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
SA engineering firm sets up shop in Bulawayo
A SOUTH African-based engineering company, Nadlac Automation has opened shop in Bulawayo and seeks to play its part in industry revival and growing Zimbabwe's economy. In an interview, Nadlac ...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps Chinese contractor
GOVERNMENT has abandoned talks with Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC) for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, opting for local financi...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara board fired
THE Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Engineer Joel Biggie Matiza has dissolved the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) board. He said the entity's board, whose management ...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Motorists fume over new tollgate
MOTORISTS have expressed dismay over the establishment of the Colleen Bawn tollgate along Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road, saying they were already paying too much at existing tollgates. Government y...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Haulage truck runs over 'dead man' on highway
A PLUMTREE man is suspected to have been murdered and his body thrown in the path of a haulage truck in Marula on Friday.The deceased has been identified as Nkosilathi Mafu (30) of HA 87 NRZ i...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's deadliest highway
At least 44% of road fatalities in the country occur along the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Mutare highway which was resurfaced a few years ago at a cost of over $200 million, Transport minister Joram Gumbo has ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ouster - Road contractor feels the heat
The contractor of the Beitbridge-Chirundu highway, Geiger International, risks facing contempt of Parliament charges after failing to appear before a parliamentary portfolio committee on the status of...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
13,000 unlicensed drivers nabbed in one year
MORE than 13 000 people were arrested for driving without valid driver's licences last year, with statistics showing a sustained prevalence of the offence over the past four years.Latest data ...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fenced highway cuts accidents caused by stray livestock
The Gweru-Bulawayo highway which used to top road traffic accidents nationwide and most of them caused by livestock, has not recorded a single road accident involving animals since January this year....Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles to service DBSA loans
Zimbabwe's cash strapped government said it is struggling to service its $206 million loan sourced from the Development Bank of Southern Africa due to deteriorating economic conditions. Th...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Transport Minister orders highway forensic audit
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo has ordered a forensic audit to establish the correct cost of the Plumtree-Harare highway amid concerns that it could have been exagge...Published: 31 Jul 2016 at 10:28hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Minister Mguni walking the talk on corruption
THE arrest of two men intercepted by the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Obedingwa Mguni, allegedly transporting more than 2,000 litres of smuggled fuel along the Plumtree-Bulawayo highway shows Gove...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe promises govt pay increase
President Robert Mugabe yesterday said government will find ways to improve the welfare of civil servants by increasing their salaries to match the poverty datum line.Addressing thousands of Z...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's full speech - Let's shun corruption, regionalism, nepotism
Address by his excellency the President of the republic of Zimbabwe, Comrade RG Mugabe on the occasion of Zimbabwe's 36th Independence Day celebrations, harare, yesterday. H...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by RG Mugabe
Warrant of arrest for top cop
A PLUMTREE magistrate has issued a warrant of arrest against a senior police officer who failed to turn up at the Plumtree Magistrates' Court yesterday to testify in a smuggling case.Assistant...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Mugabe disgusted by suspension of civil servants bonuses
THE Presidency and Cabinet did not approve suspension of civil servants' bonuses, and Government will pay its employees a 13th cheque come year-end, President Mugabe has said.The President sai...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree-Mutare Highway commissioning next month
WORK on the rehabilitation of the 820km Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare Highway is 98 percent complete with the project set for commissioning next month, Zinara board chairman Albert Mugabe has said....Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 07:17hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Taxis in anti-cop strike
PLUMTREE commuters were left stranded yesterday after taxi operators abandoned business in protest over numerous roadblocks mounted by traffic police in the border town.Residents rely on taxis to comm...Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 07:05hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
'Cops pirating along Plumtree-Bulawayo road abuse their powers'
05:44, 24 Dec - +263 7* *** ****: [registration numbers supplied] belonging to [name supplied] or [name supplied]. A respectable, fair-skinned middle aged...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 07:22hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
'Bulawayo - Plumtree road 95% complete'
Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Obert Mpofu yesterday said the 828 km-Harare-Bulawayo-Plumtree road rehabilitation is 95% complete.The first phase was to rehabilitate, opera...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two more toll gates open
Government has operationalised two toll plazas which were constructed as part of the ongoing US$206 million Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare road rehabilitation project.The Ministry of Transpor...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe readies for Sadc chairmanship
Zimbabwe will ensure that it promotes, articulates and safeguards Sadc's principles and programmes when it assumes the regional body's chair at the 34th Sadc Summit to be held in Victoria Falls on Sun...Published: 12 Aug 2014 at 07:18hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Granvia in accident along Plumtree-Bulawayo road - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 16:36hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Plumtree - Mutare road rehabilitation resumes
Work on the rehabilitation of the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare highway is set to resume this week after the government, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and Group Five agreed on the ...Published: 02 Dec 2013 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe road projects plunge into funding problems
THE joint venture between the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and a South African company Group Five Limited to rehabilitate the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare highway has plunged int...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim ethanol plant second largest infrastructure project in Africa
ZIMBABWE'S largest ethanol blending project has been nominated as one of the top five mega infrastructure projects in Africa, the company has said.Green Fuel said in a statement yesterday its...Published: 19 Nov 2013 at 03:15hrs | | by Business Reporter
Mnangagwa blames the rapid increase in vehicle volumes
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Emmerson Mnangagwa last week blamed the rapid increase in vehicle volumes without a corresponding policy change and expansion of the road infrastructu...Published: 14 Oct 2013 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara takes total control of tollgates
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration is now in total control of tollgates after it took over from the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority with effect from Tuesday this week, ending a four-year arrangement...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 03:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Figtree 'state of the art' toll plaza opened
Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development Minister Nicholas Goche has challenged the private sector to partner Government in rehabilitating and maintaining the country's roads. ...Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 04:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hotels fully booked
The country's second largest city, Bulawayo, has virtually run out of hotel accommodation ahead of the of the Zimbabwe International Trade F...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 05:34hrs | | by Business Reporter
World-class roads for Zimbabwe by 2020
It is generally contended that Zimbabwe can be a transportation hub for the region because of its centrality, and over the past couple of years the work that the Ministry of Transport, Communications ...Published: 14 Apr 2013 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dualisation of Harare roads begins
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration has started dualising national trunk roads after securing a US$147 million loan from the African Development Bank for the dualisation of the road between Nort...Published: 19 Feb 2013 at 04:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taxi drivers nabbed for operating without licences
THREE pirate taxi drivers from Bulawayo that were operating along Bulawayo- Plumtree Road have been arrested for working without operators' licences.The trio were convicted on their own plea ...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 21:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt gets pothole patching equipment
Government has acquired two state-of-the-art pothole-patching machines for the rehabilitation of the country's major highways. The machines, worth US$555 000, would be first used in Matabeleland South...Published: 07 Jan 2013 at 22:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
4 killed in road accidents
THREE people died in separate road accidents in Matabeleland North province while one died in Matabeleland South province in accidents that have been blamed on human error.Matabeleland North ...Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 04:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guzzler dies after quaffing undiluted spirit
A DRINKING binge ended tragically for a 50-year-old Figtree man who collapsed and died soon after quaffing 750 millilitres of undiluted spirit over the weekend.The incid...Published: 29 Dec 2010 at 11:30hrs | | by Sapa
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